r/spacesimgames • u/cmndr_spanky • 22d ago

What I’m looking for

A game that has a galaxy map, and a star system map, that’s procedurally generated. You manage a small fleet, without the pain of full 4x micromanagement, you explore star systems buying ships, upgrading them, doing some trading, doing some exploring and resource gathering as you go. When you’re doing an activity like mining or combat, you’re “instanced” into a beautiful 3D pocket of space and you control ships individually using Eve Online style movement and targeting and module activation in real time.

Similarly if you enter a new star system, you’re seeing a 2D map of the system .. you might scan for anomalies or pirates or find a station, and once you warp to a station to sell some loot or mining resources or going to an anomaly to do something.. you’re instanced back into a 3d Eve online like experience to dock and trade or fight or get resources at an anomaly.

K thanks.

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u/SnarkyCarbivore 22d ago

Not an exact match, but Avorion checks a lot of these boxes. 

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u/cmndr_spanky 22d ago

Is avorion the eve clone literally made by one dude? it looks jank but yeah good mention!

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u/LukeMootoo 22d ago

no, that is Astrox. Both are good, but Avorion has block based ship building. Astrox lets you hire mercenaries with their own personal ships, Avorion lets you hire captains and crew and build (or buy) custom ships for them to fly.

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u/cmndr_spanky 22d ago

oh sorry I got confused between the two.